Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/2178
Title: A cross-sectional study of HPV vaccine acceptability in Gaborone, Botswana
Authors: DiAngi, Yumi Taylor
Panozzo, Catherine A.
Ramogola-Masire, Doreen
Steenhoff, Andrew P.
Brewer, Noel T.
Keywords: Cervical cancer
HPV vaccine
Adolescent girls
Botswana
Issue Date: 25-Oct-2011
Publisher: Public Library of Science, http://www.plosone.org/
Citation: DiAngi Y.T. et al (2011) A cross-sectional study of HPV vaccine acceptability in Gaborone, Botswana. PLoS ONE, Vol. 6, No. 10, 7p.
Abstract: Background Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Botswana and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to examine whether HPV vaccine is acceptable among parents in Botswana, which recently licensed the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Methods and Findings We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 2009, around the time the vaccine was first licensed, with adults recruited in general medicine and HIV clinics in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Although only 9% (32/376) of respondents had heard of HPV vaccine prior to the survey, 88% (329/376) said they definitely will have their adolescent daughters receive HPV vaccine. Most respondents would get the vaccine for their daughters at a public or community clinic (42%) or a gynecology or obstetrician's office (39%), and 74% would get it for a daughter if it were available at her school. Respondents were more likely to say that they definitely will get HPV vaccine for their daughters if they had less education (OR = 0.20, 95% CI = 0.07–0.58) or lived more than 30 kilometers from the capital, Gaborone (OR = 2.29, 95% CI = 1.06–4.93). Other correlates of acceptability were expecting to be involved in the decision to get HPV vaccine, thinking the vaccine would be hard to obtain, and perceiving greater severity of HPV-related diseases. Conclusions HPV vaccination of adolescent girls would be highly acceptable if the vaccine became widely available to the daughters of healthcare-seeking parents in Gaborone, Botswana. Potential HPV vaccination campaigns should provide more information about HPV and the vaccine as well as work to minimize barriers.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10311/2178
ISSN: 1932-6203 (electronic)
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